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In reply to the discussion: Maduro, family and Venezuelan officials face 'narco-terrorism' grand jury indictment. Here are the charges [View all]ancianita
(42,896 posts)Maduro accessing USD currency, not offshore holdings. You do realize Maduro's outside his usual money network, right? And so his federal public defender doesn't have jurisdictional power to get money for him from across the border.
You also realize that our government is a kakistocracy, right? You think they don't know how these things work?
You think the guys the felon removes from another country are for the benefit of that country's people? or ours?
Superficially the Trump administration loves putting on a veneer that its protecting U.S. interests and national security, but you and I know Trumpism is proven pay-to-play kakistocracy and a bottomless well of assorted lazy hustles and grifts. These are not serious people.
To your point about Maduro not being smart ... A LOT of rich people aren't smart; they don't have to be when they can hire smart people. We've witnessed frontmen for both domestic & international oligarch war games for years now. And in this round, Maduro's out. The felon's playbook is thick from a lifetime of chipping away at rule of law. And so...
Using a Spanish speaking right wing Sec of State (U of Miami Law) from an old Batista stronghold (Cuba), the felon's hit list for the Americas is just getting started. It's another playbook narrative to give his doj more time to redact the names of the felon's pedophile "friends who'd be hurt."